Page Template Madness

[lightdifference]

I was developing a theme for a site earlier today and I stumbled upon a rather interesting bug. As usual, I deleted the old about page and created a new one. I added the "about" page template I had created, and to my amazement, it was still using the default page template. I removed the default page template in my templates folder and - out of all the things - it simply went back to using the default index page.

After playing around with it for a while, I found a way to fix it. Apparently, the page template name and the filename can't be the same as the actual page name (simply renaming the template to about-page.php and the template name to "About Page" did the trick.)

[ryan]

I have about.php with a Template Name of "About" serving as the page template for a page called "About". Working for me.

[foolswisdom]

Based on Ryan's update sugggesting this is working, closing as WORKSFORME. Can we get some more info if still an issue?